From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26222 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2012 18:24:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16977 Received: (qmail 22822 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2012 18:24:08 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@zsh.org From: Christian Neukirchen Subject: Re: Having random output from a file Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:08:39 +0200 Sender: chris@juno Message-ID: <87sjgk3cyg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20120402191933.5608a936@internecto.net> <20120403102304.GA12996__48421.5200799101$1333452094$gmane$org@matzbach> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a088b4a1ce50.dfn.mwn.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Eike von Seggern writes: > I use this alias to get a random line from a file (so it would only work > in your case if each quote is on a single line) > > alias rndline='sort -R | head -1' > > But it's not using any zsh magic. If you depend on GNU coreutils anyway, you can just do "shuf -n1". -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org